Will Smith, Jada Pinkett and Kimora Lee Simmons are loudly denying Radar magazine’s claims that they’ve been recruited into — dun dun dun! — the Church of Scientology.

Smith, a good buddy of Scientology poster boy Tom Cruise, denies he is a church member. “You don’t have to be Jewish to be a friend of Steven Spielberg. You don’t have to be a Muslim to be a friend of Muhammad Ali. And you don’t have to be a Scientologist to be a friend of Tom Cruise,” Smith tells us. “I am a Christian. I am a student of all religions. And I respect all people and all paths.”

Despite reports she distributed the Scientology book “The Way to Happiness” to N.Y. school kids, Simmons’ reps also denied her involvement.

But while celebs are distancing themselves from the cultlike religion, Radar’s blistering six-page expose of the church says leaders are more concerned by the dissension of its former members, namely the shadowy network of ex-Scientologists known as “Anonymous.”

The group is credited with leaking the now-infamous recruiting tape of Cruise laughing maniacally (in an equally creepy turtleneck). The pranksters/hackers also managed to crash the church’s Web site for three days and post confidential Scientololgy documents and lectures on YouTube.

Said Church spokeswoman Karin Pouw: “This group of cyber-terrorists … has targeted the Scientology religion with hate speech and hate crimes” and has even left “threats to plant nitroglycerin bombs in churches.”
Source: Daily News